1. THE NEW EDUCATION
POLICY
2020
BY- PRANSHU SHARMA
JAIPURIA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, INDORE

2. CONTENTS
ool education
her education
cher education
hnology in education
motion of Indian languages
htriya shiksha aayog
xible curriculum
ruitment of teachers
cial education zones
formity in education

3. SCHOOL EDUCATION
• The Policy emphasizes the criticality of the early years and aims to ensure quality early childhood
care and education for all children between 3-6 years by 2025 with significantly increased
investment and new initiatives.
• There will be special attention paid to early language and mathematics in Grades 1-5. The Policy
aims to ensure that every student in Grade 5 and beyond must achieve foundational literacy and
numeracy by 2025.
• A new developmentally-appropriate curriculum and pedagogical structure for school education
based on principles of brain development and learning has been developed based on a 5 + 3 + 3 + 4
design.

4. HIGHER EDUCATION
• A new vision and architecture for higher education has been envisaged with large, well-
resourced, vibrant multidisciplinary institutions. The current 800 universities and 40,000
colleges will be consolidated into about 15,000 excellent institutions.
• A broad-based liberal arts education at the undergraduate level for integrated, rigorous
exposure to science, arts, humanities, mathematics and professional fields will be put in
place. This would have imaginative and flexible curricular structures, creative
combinations of study, integration of vocational education and multiple entry/exit points.

5. TEACHER EDUCATION
• Teacher preparation programs will be rigorous and will take place in vibrant,
multidisciplinary higher education institutions. The 4-year integrated stage-specific,
subject- specific Bachelor of Education offered at multidisciplinary institutions would be
the predominant way of becoming a teacher. Substandard and dysfunctional teacher
education institutes will be shut down.

6. TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION
• This Policy aims at appropriately integrating technology into all levels of education to
improve classroom processes, support teacher professional development, enhance
educational access for disadvantaged groups and streamline educational planning,
administration and management.

7. PROMOTION OF INDIAN LANGUAGES
• The Policy will ensure the preservation, growth, and vibrancy of all Indian languages.
• Students till class 5th will be taught in their native or state language.
• Only the language “English” will not be given 100% importance.

8. RASHTRIYA SHIKSHAAAYOG
• Rashtriya Shiksha Aayog or National Education Commission will be formed, headed by
the Prime Minister - this will be the custodian of the vision of education in India.

9. FLEXIBLE CURRICULUM
• with no hard separation of curricular, co-curricular or extracurricular areas; nor of arts and
sciences, and ‘vocational’ and ‘academic’ streams - will enable student choice with the
possibility of switching subject areas at the secondary school level.

10. RECRUITMENT OF TEACHERS
• Recruitment of teachers will be done through a robust process based on comprehensive
teacher requirement planning at all schools, with preference given to local teachers and
those fluent in the local language, while ensuring diversity. The first step would be a
redesigned Teacher Eligibility Test, followed by an interview and teaching demonstration.
Teachers will be recruited to the district, as is done now in many States, and appointed to
a school complex, and must ideally have a fixed tenure and rule-based transfers through a
transparent technology-based system. They will be incentivized to teach in rural areas.

11. SPECIAL EDUCATION ZONES
• Special Education Zones will be set up in disadvantaged regions across the country. States
will be encouraged to declare these Zones based on clear social development and socio-
economic indicators and the Central government will provide financial support in the ratio
of 2:1 for every rupee spent by the State. The key idea will be to have these Zones act
upon all that is stated in this Policy for inclusion of under-represented groups in a
concerted manner, with close joint monitoring by the Centre and States.

12. UNIFORMITY IN REGULATION
• Public and private schools will be regulated on the same criteria, benchmarks and
processes, ensuring that public spirited private schools are encouraged along with private
philanthropic initiatives.

13. THANK-YOU
PRANSHU SHARMA
PGDM - 2020